The book introduces IT professionals, in particular, to various financial and data modeling concepts that they may not have seen before, giving them greater proficiency in the financial language of derivatives—and greater ability to ... Read morecommunicate with financial analysts without fear or hesitation. Such knowledge will be especially useful to those looking to pick up the necessary skills to become productive right away working in the financial sector. Financial analysts reading this book will come to grips with various data modeling concepts and therefore be in better position to explain the underlying business to their IT audience.  

Data Modeling of Financial Derivatives—which presumes no advanced knowledge of derivatives or data modeling—will help you:

• Learn the best entity–relationship modeling method out there—Barker’s CASE methodology—and its application in the financial industry
• Understand how to identify and creatively reuse data modeling patterns
• Gain an understanding of financial derivatives and their various applications
• Learn how to model derivatives contracts and understand the reasoning behind certain design decisions
• Resolve derivatives data modeling complexities parsimoniously so that your clients can understand them intuitively